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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 4% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 21, 47 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:40 UTC FW
Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 21 players at their busiest. Peak population on the latest wipe came 47 hours after it.
Once a month is all [US East] Facepunch 2 wipes, together with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 26 days 11 hours have passed since this world was generated. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
The playrust.com hostname [US East] Facepunch 2 publishes is shared with 124 other tracked servers, which points to one operator.
On Rust Live Stats, [US East] Facepunch 2 is listed under Official Rust servers, live now, Rust tutorial servers: live list, North America Rust servers, live and Vanilla Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.
official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp400 (Max players): Slots: 400; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^v (Vanilla): The rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships; ^t (Tutorial on): New players get Facepunch's tutorial as a starting point; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it is not standard Rust: that is the tag list [US East] Facepunch 2 publishes for the game's server browser. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Live now: 9 players on [US East] Facepunch 2, out of 400 slots. Averaged across seven days, 10 players; the peak was 19. Between now and 48 hours back, 02:00 UTC drew the most players, 16 on average.
Player hours over seven days put [US East] Facepunch 2 at #964, in the top 4% of all ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of [US East] Facepunch 2 states a gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. You find it in the Official tab in game. Vanilla is its own label: the rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
[US East] Facepunch 2 runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 519156865. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
The name points to North America even though [US East] Facepunch 2 publishes no region tag. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. You can reach it at 40.160.19.18:28015.
The average server fps was 277 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 228. Entity count reached 145,112: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 6,687 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [US East] Facepunch 2 runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
[US East] Facepunch 2 is up and running at this moment. About 15 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 40.160.19.18:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
